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Riders mixed on LTC’s $583K plan
Plan to reroute buses away from Dundas and Richmond finds mixed reactions
Monica Blaylock
NEWS EDITOR
Drugs, garbage and homelessness
are among the negative stereotypes
defining the bustling downtown
intersection at Dundas Street and
Richmond Street.
With 55 per cent of bus routes
travelling through the intersection,
the area is often congested with
transit riders and this is becoming a
problem for local businesses and
homeowners.
The City of London has been
working with the London Transit
Commission in an attempt to revi-
talize that portion of downtown and
assuage complaints about the state
of the intersection. They are consid-
ering introducing a pilot program,
which would aim to eliminate bus
stops along Dundas between Ridout
Street and Wellington Road. The idea
is having fewer bus stops at the
intersection will reduce traveller
congestion, cleaning up the sur-
rounding areas.
However, a recent user survey
TYPICAL USC — BUILD AN ICE RINK AND FORGET THE ICE. The inklings of an ice
rink were seen this week on Concrete Beach. The rink realizes a campaign promise
by Justin Mackie, vice-president student events.
Bribing volunteers and staff with pizza since 1906
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conducted by the LTC showed riders
may not be in support of the sug-
gested change in routes.
“The majority of respondents of
the LTC questionnaire indicated that
the rerouting would have an
unfavourable impact on their travel
time and transfer connections,”
Larry Ducharme, general manager
of the LTC, said.
Ducharme pointed out 49.5 per
cent of riders who completed the
LTC Pilot Program survey felt com-
muting from downtown to other
areas of the city would be made
worse by the change. Only 25 per reroutes] would take people away
cent felt it would improve the quali- from crowding the corners of that
ty of the downtown area and LTC area, which would help the business
performance, and 25.5 per cent felt and homeowners,” Bryant continued.
it would not contribute to change. “Proceeding with this initiative
“I think the problem for many is subject to approval of the related
people is having to walk that extra 2011 budget by municipal council,”
distance to get to Dundas Street. Ducharme said, adding the project
That may have been the reason rid- would not be funded by the LTC but
ers aren’t behind the survey as rather through the city council
much,” said Judy Bryant, Ward 13 budget.
councillor for the City of London. It would cost the city an estimat-
“You really don’t know how peo- ed $583,400 to run the pilot project
ple will respond until you do it. [The and about $1.4 million to make the
Ice rink underway at UWO
Kaleigh Rogers
NEWS EDITOR
Sharpen your skates, kiddies, a new
leisure skating rink is closer than
you might suspect.
This week on Concrete Beach,
construction began for an ice skat-
ing rink set to be ready for students
by next week. Justin Mackie, vice-
president student events for the Uni-
versity Students’ Council, is oversee-
ing the construction. The rink was
one of the platform promises during
Mackie’s campaign last year during
vice presidential elections.
“I really wanted to build a sense
of community,” Mackie explained.
Corey Stanford GAZETTE “I wanted to have something
where it happens all the time and
any group, no matter if it’s a club, a
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reroutes permanent, introducing
three new buses to the city. It would
cost $125,000 to restore service back
to its original Dundas routes.
Ducharme also believed there
may be a negative impact on the
downtown core if the pilot project is
given the green light.
“From LTC’s perspective, there
will be higher operating costs, ser-
vice inefficiencies and potential loss
of riders,” he said, pointing out a
possible benefit of the program
would be the additional economic
pendently, can just go out and use
something and have fun.”
Rich Caccamo, manager of stu-
dent activities for the USC, noted this
isn’t the first time Concrete Beach
has seen an ice rink. Until recently
there was a rink every winter, but it
stopped in the last five or six years.
“I think some years we’ve had
real issues with mild weather spells
coming in and that’s always a con-
cern of ours, but it’s done OK in the
past,” Caccamo said.
Brandon Sousa, external affairs
co-ordinator for the USC, explained
the area is already insured under the
USC, but students should use com-
mon sense before jumping on the rink.
“It’s up to your own risk, you
know. If you know how to skate, then
hop on the skating rink. But most of
the stuff is pretty standard, it’s not as
The tipping
point for
oil sands
A new documentary by
David Suzuki looks at
Alberta’s oil sands and
its effects on nearby
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gain to the city of London and local
businesses.
Bryant pointed out the negative
responses from survey results meant
city hall will have to spend more time
looking into public opinion before
going ahead with any rerouting.
“I think the main thing is that the
public gets the opportunity to voice
their opinion on the issue. I think the
next step will be to see it at a public
meeting, for people to see what is
planned and have their say in public
process.”
complex [to insure] as if it were to
be a swimming pool or something,”
Sousa said.
Costs for the rink were kept down
by using recycled supplies and hir-
ing students to help flood the rink,
Mackie explained.
Once up and running, the rink
will be open for leisure skating dur-
ing the day, Caccamo added.
“We’re not promoting hockey or
any sort of recreational sports, it’s
just not a facility to do that. But I’m
hoping students enjoy it throughout
the day and then early evening.”
Mackie hoped students would
take advantage of the space over the
next few weeks while the cold
weather lasts.
“Go around, get some physical
exercise, go skating and have a good
time.”
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News Briefs

Textbook ring busted
in Montreal
Students in Montreal will no longer
be getting their textbooks at an
increased discount
Last week, the RCMP raided four
photocopy stores and arrested 13
people in Montreal. The raid came
as a result of hundreds of textbooks
that were being illegally copied.
The RCMP was alerted of the
scheme after a complaint from a
photocopy store, which used to do
business with universities regarding
textbooks.
“The legal photocopy store found
out by word of mouth that there was
something wrong with other photo-
copy stores, which were doing the
same business as them, but only
asking for a quarter of the price of
the real value,” said Corporal Luc
Thibault of the RCMP.
“After we got this tip, we began to
investigate this matter. When we did,
we found out there was a lot of pho-
tocopy stores that had a front that
looked to be legal, but were actually
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“This particular offence is pun-
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however the severity of the punish-
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counterfeited books, and whether it’s
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etc.,” Thibault said.
— Jason Sinukoff
iPhone artery app
created at Western
Your phone can now tell you
whether or not that burger is a good
idea.
A new iPhone application moni-
toring artery blockage has been
developed by researchers of the
Schulich School of Medicine and
Dentistry at Western.
The app creates ultrasound
images of plaque inside a patient’s
carotid artery and places them on a
well protected website.
“Our vision is that patients can
access their image and some key
parameters they need to help man-
age their disease,” Femida Gwadry-
Sridhar, a professor in the depart-
ments of medicine, physiology and
pharmacology, who’s leading the
project.
“No personal information is
stored on the device,” Gwadry-Srid-
har explained. “It is wiped once the
security certificate expires.”
Currently, the goal is to conduct a
pilot study, Gwadry-Sridhar said.
This involves measuring “patient
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factor,” based on lifestyle and med-
ication use, and collecting feedback
from patients on how to improve the
app.
“Following this pilot, we will con-
duct a randomized controlled trial
where we can test the application in
a rigorous manner. The timeframe to
start the pilot would be later this
year.”
Gwadry-Sridhar expected the
app to expand to other devices, such
as iPads.
“Whether the end-user pays for
the app or the public payer system
is able to absorb the cost is subject
to discussion.”
— Irina Studenyak
Western gets
$2 million donation
Several researchers at Western have
more money to burn for their latest
research project.
A $2 million donation by the
Canada Foundation for Innovation
last week is being used to fund six
projects at Western, with the major-
ity of the money going to the new
biomedical device laboratory.
The laboratory initiative, led by
Robarts Research Institute
researchers Maria Drangova, Aaron
Fenster and David Holdsworth
received $605,623 which will help
the laboratory design and test new
medical devices.
Holdsworth remarked on a
major piece of new equipment the
donation is funding — a device
which can print objects directly into
metal in 3D.
“[Western] is the only university
in Canada with equipment like this
for 3D metal printing,” he noted.
This new equipment will help
reduce the time it takes to develop
and create functional prototypes of
new devices, which can be used in
fields such as musculoskeletal
health and image-guided cancer
diagnosis and therapy.
“The new grant means a dramat-
ic change for the laboratory,”
Holdsworth said. “The lab will have
a major new capacity.”
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Campus > USC

OUSA takes aim at

investment strategies
Ontario student lobby group asking
government to invest in teacher training
Cheryl Madliger
GAZETTE STAFF
Representing more than 140,000
professional and undergraduate stu-
dents at universities across Ontario,
Meaghan Coker gave a presentation
to Ontario’s Standing Committee on
Finance and Economic Affairs yes-
terday.
As president of the Ontario
Undergraduate Student Alliance,
Coker brought forward the alliance’s
formal suggestions for investments
in post-secondary education to go
into the future budget.
In their formal document, “An
Educated Investment: Advancing
Post-Secondary Education,” the
group outlined three key priorities
and strategies: ensuring access to
higher education, making a strategic
investment in post-secondary insti-
tutions, and promoting student suc-
cess. She said the priorities are crit-
ical to improving accessibility,
affordability and the quality of post-
secondary education in Ontario.
“This is kind of the pinnacle of
There needs to be a
greater focus on
improving the quality
of the experience,
whether it’s inside the
classroom or outside of
the classroom.
Meaghan Coker
President of the
Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance
ment is about meeting the demand
for growth in post-secondary edu-
cations.
“We’re asking for more operating
grants and for the per-student fund-
ing to be increased. With the Open
Ontario Plan, if [the government is]
looking to increase the number of
spots, they need to be able to fund us
fully,” she explained. She also noted
students were paying for a dispro-
portionate amount of the costs of
“I could see a multitude of ways
that we could be providing more
faculty assistance,” she said, noting
their programming is popular, but
limited by a lack of funding.
Improving teacher training is an
important step to improving the
undergraduate student experience,
she said.
“[Improvements] would benefit
all undergraduates because we have
over 1,500 faculty registrants in our
programs, but think of the number
of faculty we could actually reach if
we could offer programming more
continuously throughout the year.
We have over 3,000 faculty, so you
can see the impact that we actually
could be having,” she explained.
Coker agreed learning in the
classroom is important but noted,
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Scott Kerr, vice-president cam- information about student debt.
pus issues for the University Stu-
dents’ Council, said providing ade- 
quate student services is essential in

work we’ve been doing the entire
year,” Coker said.
The document suggests reallo-
cating this investment to reduce
upfront costs for students and mak-
ing more middle-income students
eligible for financial assistance as
solutions. It also proposes improved
access for low-income students to
funding via the Ontario Access
Grant.

their post-secondary education. improving the student experience.
Keeping the student experience “Students are more stressed than
at the forefront, Coker said the focus ever and it can affect how much they
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Opinions
SEX AND ANONYMITY
The birds,
the bees, and
the dialogue
The Gazette is counting down to our annual Sex Issue
by giving readers the chance to submit questions
anonymously for our sex survey. (Visit wgaz.ca/gaz-
sex-survey to submit yours.) For years, the survey was
available only in print and yielded a handful of sub-
missions. Last year, the survey went online — and
completely anonymous — quickly yielding over 300
responses.
Sex is a paradoxical topic in the West. It’s seen
nearly everywhere — heck, the internet was practi-
cally founded on it — but it’s still taboo to talk about
in public.
Sex is effective in advertising because it’s still
shocking and titillating. It’s in this way that the West
suffers from a false sense of sexual liberation — the
idea of sexual freedom with a litany of stigmas pre-
venting true expression.
But there may be a way to encourage a more
open discussion about sex — anonymity. It’s easier
to talk about sex when your identity isn’t at risk. Sex
clinics and HIV testing will advertise themselves as
anonymous to encourage participation. The adult
industry is practically based on anonymity, evi-
denced best by opposition to a new licensing bylaw
proposed in London, which would require exotic
dancers to register with the city.
With the increased accessibility of the internet,
people can engage in safe, open discourse about
sex in ways they couldn’t before. While this will
surely lead to a lot of vulgarity and abuse online,
this is true of any anonymous forum. But with the
internet, people can leave their inhibitions at the
door and talk about sex without the influence of
public opinion.
The topic of sex is an ongoing struggle
between stigma and openness. It’s important to
have frank discussions about sex and for there to
be plenty of sexual education available. But lim-
iting sex talks to classrooms makes those spaces
the only accepted spaces to talk about it. The
Gazette is guilty of it too, spending the year with
a largely sexless newspaper, dedicating one spe-
cial issue to the topic.
The stigma surrounding sex is a vast problem,
affecting everything from family dynamics to the
education system. Improving sentiments towards
sex to encourage a more comfortable, open dia-
logues is a noble goal. But it’s nearly impossible to
achieve when any single solution cannot have a
meaningful impact.
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Letters to the editor
Grad students Campus full of Atwood’s talk
trashy people
should vote disruptive to club
To the Editor: To the Editor: To the Editor:
The Society of Graduate Students is con- There are garbage cans everywhere you Margaret Atwood’s appearance at Alum-
ducting a referendum on whether or not go on campus — especially in the dining ni Hall on Wednesday, Jan. 19 was prob-
Western grad students should withdraw areas — so why is it that I constantly find lematic for many members of the UWO
from the Canadian Federation of Stu- myself having to throw out other people’s Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu club.
dents. I would like to explain why I think garbage whenever I sit down at a table to It seems her august presence required
grad students should vote. eat my lunch? the hiring of a number of extremely
I have no role with SOGS or the CFS, You would think that university stu- aggressive security personnel, who were
but I have been a student for a long time, dents would know by now, that their stationed at all building entrances. Who-
and I know that the CFS has been our garbage belongs in the garbage cans — ever had hired them was either unaware
voice when students have faced tuition not on the table or anywhere else for or neglected to mention that our club
hikes, government cut-backs to post-sec- that matter. There is absolutely no rents the wrestling room in the basement
ondary education, and changes to stu- excuse for not cleaning up after your- of Alumni Hall for practices on Wednes-
dent grants and loans. I would be dis- self when you’re finished at a table. It day evenings. Consequently, a number of
mayed to see SOGS abandon the solidar- astounds me how so many students our members were quite rudely prevent-
ity available to us through the CFS. can be so inconsiderate as to leave ed from entering the building.
They provide us with a united voice their garbage all over the table when I find it extremely ironic that someone
for students at federal and provincial they leave. of Ms. Atwood’s political persuasions
tables and represent our interests in con- Last week, I had to throw out some- would require an accompanying
sultation processes, such as the one prior one’s leftover banana peel, their soggy squadron of brownshirts to provide
to the Federal Budget. The CFS also con- Subway wrapper, and their coffee cup, security. It is also troubling that those
ducts campaigns on tuition fees, afford- before I could sit down at the available responsible for organizing the event
able student transit passes, and students’ table — and the worst part was that the couldn’t find the time to investigate if
right to organize as students. garbage can was literally a few steps anyone else might be using the building
Beyond advocacy, the CFS gives stu- away! that evening.
dent unions the opportunity to pool their Are students really so lazy that they Hopefully future events will be orga-
purchasing power and get better rates on can’t walk a few steps to throw out their nized in a more considerate manner.
day-planners, extended health benefits, trash? You can’t really walk anywhere on —David Michel
and website hosting (SOGS takes advan- campus without passing a trash can, so I President UWO Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu club
tage of some of these and not others). really don’t understand why some peo- Electrical & Computer Engineering Ph.D IV
Individual members have access to the ple can’t be bothered to use it. Other peo-
ISIC card, which provides discounts on ple shouldn’t have to throw out your shit
travel fares, TravelCUTS, free tax filing just so they can use the table you were Dear Life
and student work-abroad programs. previously at — it’s disgusting and unsan-
The vote takes place from Jan. 24-27 itary. Your anonymous letters addressed to life
in University Community Centre Rm. Is it so much to ask that you clean up
260. There are costs associated with stay- after yourself when you leave an area? Dear Life,
ing in CFS, of course, but there would also —Ann Huynh Every day I walk into Einstein’s and
be a cost if we were to leave. I encourage Science III hear the music my parents would be
all grad students to take the time to vote. listening to. It always puts a smile on
—Liz Sutherland my face and reminds me of home.
Political Science PhD Year IV
Dear Life,
So what’s with this all this zodiac change
Enjoying all the letters you’ve seen this week? hype? I’m pretty sure we’ve been using
Keep ‘em coming! the “wrong” signs for a while now.
Ignore it, maybe it’ll go away.
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Arts&Life
Amber Garratt
ARTS & LIFE EDITOR
How would it feel not being able to
drink water out of the tap for fear of
getting cancer, or not being able to
eat fish from the lake nearby
because they all have tumours?
To most this is unfathomable, but
to the people in Fort Chipewyan this
is a reality.
Fort Chipewyan is located in
northern Alberta along Lake
Athabasca and downstream from
arguably the world’s largest con-
struction site — the oil sands.
Filmmakers Tom Radford and
Niobe Thompson of Clearwater
Media united with Canadian envi-
ronmental activist David Suzuki to
produce a tell-all documentary of
the environmental, health and polit-
ical controversies of the oil sands
development titled Tipping Point: The
Age of the Oil Sands.
“Here is an issue [of] absolutely
vital concern for this generation,”
Suzuki said in an interview. “Young
people are going to live with the
consequences of what we are
putting into the atmosphere for their
entire life.”
The oil sands development is
praised for its contribution to the
Canadian economy. It supplies thou-
sands of jobs to Canadians and has
become the most important suppli-
er of foreign oil to the U.S. But for all
these benefits, a vocal group of
activists are decrying the environ-
mental and health effects, saying
Canadians are vastly unaware.
“By not dealing with our carbon
emissions we are just making it a
worse problem. Basically, we are
mortgaging your future,” Suzuki
says. “We are saying let [future gen-
erations] deal with it. Now we need
economic growth — we need to
exploit this oil. Young people ought
to be able to see this and ought to be
up on the ramparts.”
The list of environmental and
health issues facing Fort Chipewyan
is staggering. Carbon dioxide emis-
sions, water pollution, biliary tract
cancers and cancers of the blood
and lymphatic system are just some
that the documentary addresses.
The issue of the oil sands is out
of sight and out of mind for most
Canadians, but according to film-
maker Niobe Thompson, this needs
to change.
“It all began two and a half years
ago when we were having a conver-
sation with Dr. David Schindler and
he mentioned that he was embark-
Here is an issue [of]
absolutely vital concern
for this generation.
Young people are
going to live with the
consequences of what
we are putting into the
atmosphere for their
entire life.
— David Suzuki
ing on this semi-secret research pro-
ject to finally do an independent
assessment to see if the oil sands
were putting pollution into the
Athabasca River,” Thompson says.
Schindler is a professor of ecolo-
gy at the University of Alberta, and
was the first scientist to find that the
oil sands development has been con-
taminating the Athabasca River
watershed through different path-
ways.
Controversy surrounding the oil
sands is nothing new. After the Arab
Oil Embargo in 1973, the price of oil
skyrocketed and, according to Suzu-
ki, international eyes turned to Cana-
da’s oil sands as a fix for the problem.
“At the time there was a small
plant in the tar sands, Syncrude, that
was producing about a 10,000 bar-
rels of oil a day. Peter Lougheed, the
premier of Alberta, said we had to
ramp up [the production] and build
at least 10 bigger plants than Syn-
crude,” Suzuki explains.
From then on it was full speed
ahead with the development of the
oil sands.
“There was an opportunity then
to take these social and ecological
issues [of the oil sands] seriously,
way back then, but now there has
been so much money invested in the
infrastructure to get at the oil. There
is no way that the government could
shut it down,” Suzuki says. “This is a
warning that we are going to have a
mess, that we have a mess, that is
going to have to be dealt with.”
This documentary hopes to bring
this situation to light.
“We called the documentary Tip-
ping Point for a reason. We felt that
the research conducted by Schindler
was going to lead to a tipping point —
that we need to start monitoring pol-
lution because we haven’t, that is one
tipping point,” Thompson explains.
“The other bigger tipping point is that
Photos courtesy of Clearwater documentary
what the oil sands shows is that we
are at the end of the age of oil.”
Thompson and Radford wanted to
make a documentary that showed as
many sides of the debate as possible.
“We built our documentary based
on two points of view: the down-
stream point of view which is the
very personal point of view of the
people that are suffering because of
this development — there is cancer
in their community. The other point
of view is the scientist, not any sci-
entist, but Schindler and his
research,” Thompson says.
The film also highlights the
debates of both the Federal and
Alberta’s Provincial governments.
Clips of international environmen-
tal conferences and parliament ses-
sions were included to cover all
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sides of the story.
“Governments can make strong
assurances that everything is OK […]
and tell people not to worry about it,
but people always have to be critical
— especially when a government is
so closely tied in its dependence on
the revenue from an industry such
as the fossil fuel industry,” Suzuki
says. “When they say that there is no
impact from the industrial develop-
ment of the oil sands, people have to
be very skeptical and demand more
responsibility.”
Tipping Point: The Age of the Oil
Sands will air on CBC’s The Nature of
Things with David Suzuki this evening
at 8 p.m.
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The nominees for the
83rd Annual Academy
Awards were announced
Tuesday morning. First-
time hosts Anne Hath-
away and James Fran-
co will bring a fresh
feel to the typically
comedian-dominat-
ed hosting position.
The show will air Feb. 27
on ABC. Below are some of the more
notable categories:
Best Picture
Black Swan
The Fighter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King’s Speech
127 Hours
The Social Network
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone
Actor in a Leading Role
Javier Bardem in Biutiful
Jeff Bridges in True Grit
Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network
Colin Firth in The King’s Speech
James Franco in 127 Hours
Actor in a Supporting Role
Christian Bale in The Fighter
John Hawkes in Winter’s Bone
Jeremy Renner in The Town
Mark Ruffalo in The Kids Are All Right
Geoffrey Rush in The King’s Speech
Actress in a Leading Role
Annette Bening in The KidsAreAll Right
Nicole Kidman in Rabbit Hole
Jennifer Lawrence in Winter’s Bone
Natalie Portman in Black Swan
Michelle Williams in Blue Valentine
Actress in a Supporting Role
Amy Adams in The Fighter
Helena Bonham Carter in
The King’s Speech
Melissa Leo in The Fighter
Hailee Steinfeld in True Grit
Jackie Weaver in Animal Kingdom
Directing
Darren Aronofsky, Black Swan
David O. Russell, The Fighter
Tom Hooper, The King’s Speech
David Fincher, The Social Network
Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, True Grit
— Christina Guidoccio
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Sports
rundown >> The Mustangs dominated at the 28th Annual Don Wright Invitational with the men placing second overall and the women taking the gold > In his first race
of the year, Scott Leitch won the 600 m event and is ranked first in the country | The Mustangs wrestling team had another successful weekend with Larissa D’Alleva
winning the silver medal in the 63 kg division, while rookie Steven Takahashi captured the bronze in the 55 kg division at the Guelph Open.
Seedhouse sinks OT winner
Pat Robinson
GAZETTE STAFF
There is a reason why fourth-year
star forward Ellie Seedhouse is cap-
tain. She showed it Friday night,
scoring twice in a 3-2 overtime win
over the visiting University of
Ontario Institute of Technology
Ridgebacks.
It only took 13 seconds for Seed-
house to make her mark on the
game, giving the Mustangs women’s
hockey team the early lead. Second-
year forward Lindsay Repath dou-
bled the advantage six minutes later.
“Ellie has really been on a roll the
past month and is a big reason for
our success here tonight,” Mustangs
head coach Chris Higgins said.
In the second period, the Ridge-
backs came storming back with
goals scored by forwards Jaclyn
Gibson and Sarah Worthington.
Fortunately for Western, first-
year goaltender Olivia Ross rose to
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the Ridgebacks to force overtime.
“We have gotten some bad
breaks this year and whether it’s me
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team win,” Ross said after the win.
When overtime began, Seed-
house made like Sidney Crosby and
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the Mustangs the much needed two
points.
“It’s always fun to end the game
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“We fought hard through the first
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at the Winter Universiade in Turkey.
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“Our penalty kill has been great
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thegazette • Thursday, January 27, 2011
Gaels storm
past Mustangs
UWO suffers worst loss of the year
Greg Colgan
GAZETTE STAFF
The unfortunate thing about
rebuilding seasons is you have to
learn lessons the hard way. The Mus-
tangs women’s hockey team discov-
ered that on Sunday afternoon.
After coming off a win Friday
night, the Mustangs were outclassed
by the Queen’s Gaels 6-1.
“We’re fighting for playoff posi-
tioning right now. We were disap-
pointed with yesterday’s loss [to
Windsor] so we definitely wanted to
rebound with a good game today,”
Queen’s coach Matthew Holmberg
said.
From the drop of the puck,
Queen’s came out aggressive and
kept the Mustangs pinned in their
own end for most of the period. The
Gaels efforts were rewarded with
three goals in the first 11 minutes of
the game.
“We needed to start strong and
keep up the momentum,” Holmberg
said. “I warned them that Western’s a
well-coached team that works hard
and we couldn’t let them back in the
game.”
A more urgent Mustangs team
emerged in the second period, but
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were unable to beat Queen’s goalie
Karissa Savage despite several
chances.
“We had a very good second
period where we could’ve gotten
two goals, but we just didn’t,” Mus-
tangs coach Chris Higgins said.
“We had chances to score when it
might’ve turned the game around
and we didn’t.”
Higgins admitted his team strug-
gled during the first period, forcing
them to play from behind. Although
satisfied with a strong second peri-
od, he knows his team needs three
solid periods to win.
“We keep telling them the next
period is the first period of the rest of
your life. You can’t change the past
just keep moving forward,” Higgins
said. “It’s been like that for us all sea-
son. We have one bad period and it
sets us back.”
As the third period began, a reju-
venated Queen’s team took advan-
tage of Mustang penalties scoring
two powerplay goals within 12 sec-
onds and another goal a minute later
to put the game out of reach. The
Queen’s powerplay unit finished
with four goals in the game with for-
ward Alex Cieslowski cashing in
twice.
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THERE’S A JOKE TO BE MADE ABOUT DOUBLE-TEAMING HERE, BUT WE’RE FAR TOO CLASSY TO MAKE IT. Queen’s
absolutely dominated the Western Mustangs in action on Sunday with a 6–1 final. The Mustangs are back in action on Sat-
urday against York.
“We needed to pick it up a level if with captain Ellie Seedhouse away season, Higgins is proud of his team.
we were going to get the win,” Holm- at the Winter Universiade in Turkey. They may not be as talented as the
berg said. “3-0 in my mind was not “She’s one of the 12 best forwards top teams, but he knows that every
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responded which was good to see.” player like her without suffering,” “I give every single one of those
Mustangs forward Lindsay Higgins said. “Ellie makes everyone girls in that dressing room credit.
Gidomski answered late in the third, on the ice around her better, but We’re trying and not one of them
but it was too little too late for the that’s no excuse. I thought we played has quit at any point this season
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